Bug 494008 – mkinitrd silently fails if an image already exists

Bug 494008 - mkinitrd silently fails if an image already exists

Summary:	mkinitrd silently fails if an image already exists

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	mkinitrd (Show other bugs)
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Version:	10
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Peter Jones
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Reported:	2009-04-03 13:19 EDT by Nathanael Noblet
Modified:	2009-04-03 13:26 EDT (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2009-04-03 13:25:47 EDT
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Description Nathanael Noblet 2009-04-03 13:19:31 EDT

Description of problem:

When building a new image (for example if the mobo has been replaced and new sata /scsi controller needs to be in the image). You run mkinitrd, however if the file exists, mkinitrd just quits, no error message

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
F10 so far.

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. mkinitrd /boot/initrd-KERNEL_VERSION.img KERNEL_VERSION
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Actual results:
Prompt is returned

Expected results:
An error message stating that since an image exists already mkinitrd has exited.

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Comment 1 Nathanael Noblet 2009-04-03 13:26:03 EDT

sorry - I had used an f9 version...

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